Barut Lara

This was by far the best holiday we have ever been on. If you are looking for a tranquil, relaxing paradise with incredible food, drinks, and exceptionally attentive staff, this is the perfect trip.||We stayed in a one-bedroom villa, which was both luxurious and extremely comfortable. It truly felt like our own private paradise.||The staff go above and beyond, always polite and accommodating.||As part of the villa experience, you are provided with a WhatsApp concierge who helps you book restaurants, sports, and entertainment, and offers recommendations for activities each day. We could not have asked for better service from Enes and his team.||The beach pavilion is beautiful and private, with wonderfully comfortable seating where you can relax all day.||The quality of the food was outstanding. Every dish we ordered, whether delivered to the villa or enjoyed at the pavilion, was of the highest standard. The à la carte restaurants were also excellent.||Overall, this was a truly memorable experience and easily the most relaxing holiday we have ever had.

This is our second time visiting this wonderful hotel. We travelled as a family of six people. Two 21 year olds two 50’s and two in their late 70’s. We took a wheelchair for my mum. Every part of the hotel was accessible. From check in to our rooms everything was smooth. We booked lagoon swim up rooms and initially we were put in garden lagoon rooms but they moved us the next day. The rooms are very spacious and enough storage room for all clothes et . They are very clean and the maids do brilliant towel art. ||The food choices were all fantastic. We ate at the Sushi and the BBQ concept and the Sandal dish restaurant. Booking the a la cartes was a bit tricky but with the excellent help of Yadigar and Anna at Guest Relations they helped us. They create a WhatsApp group so you can chat to them. They also organised a private driver for us for the day to take us to Side and Manarvgat waterfalls and market. ||Book this hotel you will not be disappointed

As someone who doesn't like resort hotels I happily concede that this place is wonderful So much thought and effort has gone into the planning and landscaping One caveat, we didn't leave the hotel for a week because there is so much to do there we didn't need to. More adventurous guests won't find anything within walking distance but excursion are available. That aside every bar, every restaurant, every pool is beautiful. Staff are invisible but attentive when needed. So many food choices! All excellent. Night time entertainment is of the variety category - all we saw we very good, very skilled and talented. There is a lot of love, effort and thoughts gone into making this very special. Favourite spot - the pier 👍

Absolutely Amazing Stay at Lara Barut Collection! Our experience at Lara Barut Collection was truly outstanding! The service was exceptional – every staff member was friendly, professional, and always willing to help. The location is perfect, just around 20 minutes from the airport, which made our arrival and departure so convenient. The pools were fantastic – clean, spacious, and perfect for both kids and adults. We stayed in a room with direct pool access, and it was absolutely stunning. Waking up and stepping straight into the water felt like a dream! Highly recommended for anyone looking for a relaxing and luxurious holiday in Turkey. We would definitely love to come back! It's the second time for us here!!

We really enjoyed our stay at this hotel. Everything was perfect — the staff were friendly, the facilities were clean and well maintained, and the location was excellent. However, we were quite disappointed with the size of our room.||Although the hotel offers this room type for families of four, it was simply too small for us to be comfortable. There wasn’t enough space for luggage or to move around without feeling cramped.||I would highly recommend this hotel for couples or smaller groups, but they should not offer this particular room as suitable for a family of four. Otherwise, it’s a very good hotel and we had a pleasant stay.

What an amazing holiday yet again at the Lara Barut! Our 4th visit and it definitely didn’t disappoint…from the excellent guest relations (Yadigar, Saida and Anna) booking and ensuring we visited every a la carte (which were all fabulous!) to the housekeeping team ensuring our rooms were spotless every day. Thank you! But a huge shout out goes to the animation team for keeping us and the children entertained day and night! To Martin - for his warmth and hospitality, to Amigo - for his daily check ins and taking our Millie for archery every day, to Aykut - for his friendship and care for our Fraser every day at darts…a holiday friend for life! And the gorgeous Bouket- for her happy, smiling face every day and dancing shoes by night! To all the bar staff for keeping us well hydrated! Thank you all for the best service we could ask for!

Most luxurious, beautiful and relaxing stay. We stayed in the 2 bedroom villa and was ultra all inclusive. The staff at the villas are exceptional. Friendly and professional with a willingness to go out of their way to ensure your stay is absolutely faultless. Food is superb, surroundings are stunning and the option to dip into the private fresh salt water pool or private heated pool after a spa moment was fantastic. With 3 children aged between 19 and 2, they were very well catered for. Toiletries just for the baby and a little welcome pack for her was a lovely touch. Special thanks to our guest assistants ferhad and Vera who ensured we were well taken care of organising 2 of the older children to attend the evening show, reservations and collected from the villa to be taken to their seats. The spa, gym, steam room and sauna are wonderful and the beds are exceptionally comfortable. The villa is very spacious with every detail well considered. The 'secret' terrace was also a lovely place to escape and take a quiet moment. With mini bars in all rooms and a main fridge in the kitchen being well stocked for everyone with premiuim drinks and snacks. Plenty of Bulgari products so the villa smells amazing and the welcome platters of sweet treats were a lovely touch. The restaurants are great and the patisserie was well frequented by us all. There was nothing that couldn't be exceptional about our stay and we can't wait to return. Staff even held onto a few items we left behind for our next stay. Really great idea to use a QR code to order to the villa. We'll worth going ultra all inclusive, it really is. The restaurant food, patisserie, drinks etc all brought to the villa with no wait time and availability being 24/7 was appreciated having the children and an early flight. I defy anyone to go to Bayou Villas ultra inclusive and not relax. From the music playing and champagne arrival to the departure early morning we had a luxurious, relaxing and fully catered experience that we don't believe can be beat. I've shared the QR code for my daughters Instagram in the photos. She has more photos. I was far to relaxed for that. Thank you for our fantastic stay and the exceptional service. Bayou, you set the bar!

We stayed here as a family of three in a fabulous two bedroom villa. ||I had initially booked to stay in the main Lara Barut Collection hotel in a deluxe swim up two bedroom family suite, however someone I knew and was a previous guest at a villa advised me to upgrade if possible. ||A private transfer from the airport was included with our stay as we were booked in a suite, our driver was very easy to find at the airport and the transfer was around thirty minutes. ||On arrival I asked about an upgrade and I paid the agreed fee to upgrade, this was probably one of the best decisions I've made. ||Although the main hotel looked really nice and the staff were superb, the experience in the villa was simply next level. We had villa 201 and Orkun showed us round the villa. ||A run down of some included items and benefits for villa guests:-||Swim up pool freshwater|Separate pool salt water|Sauna|Steam room|Massage treatment room with jacuzzi|Mini gym|Pool table|Bottle of Chivas 18yr gold signature whisky|Bottle of Monkey 47 gin|Bottle of absence Enyx vodka |Bottle of champagne |Dedicated seating for shows with champagne |Dedicated concierge who book al a carte for you|Dedicated villa al a carte|Upgraded in room dining menu|Cabana at the beach|Bang and olufsen speaker (£3,300 speaker)|Bike |Separate buggy service to and from beach|On departure you get Elite lounge access and are taken through passport control and security (this is excellent as queues were large when we were there)||When we entered the villa there was also fresh fruit, and nuts etc all laid out. The villa in dining menu which is accessed by scanning a QR code is the same menu as in the villa guests al a carte so its really good.||The villa delivered on all fronts, house keeping were absolutely brilliant and they're the unsung heroes,keeping everything tidy and smelling beautiful in the villa, the grounds are well kept with a great variety of shrubs and plants, and all staff we had any dealings with were simply exemplary, nothing was too much trouble. ||We had a great stay and although I don't generally return to the same place twice this is definitely on my list of places to revisit.||The only negative point, and one I raised was the evening entertainment, I feel its a bit too child orientated, the children have the mini disco and there's still the kids club open so I feel the evening show should also cater for a wider demographic. We only saw one show which was the Beijing acrobats, the circus one we along with others left after about 10 minutes. ||They did have ETHNO on the grass area and that was superb, DJ with a couple of gents playing violin and saxophone, then after that there was another DJ on with women dancing on podiums and fireworks and pyrotechnics, that was absolutely brilliant. ||Food wise we did the BBQ al a carte which was good, you basically pick what you want and cook it on a bbq they bring to your table, we also ate at the Italian. ||We never used the buffet restaurant really, we used the villa al a carte restaurant for breakfast, then at lunch either ordered at the cabana or ate at the villa. The villas have everything you need so we tended to use it.||There's 4 minibars in the two bedroom villa and the staff do a great job keeping these topped up with alcoholic and soft drinks as well as with snickers and oreos and pringles and chewing gum. ||I've stayed in some very good hotels around the world and the service offered here is up with the best of them, the reservation team I booked with were also very good, to find any fault would be nitpicking and petty.||Many thanks to the entire concierge team, the housekeeping team and all the staff at the Weik restaurant, keep on doing what you're doing.||Lastly, we never used the main pool but was great to see staff serving drink on roller blades when we walked past.||The slides on the water park were great and myself and my son had a good time using those, my son also played mini golf and played football a lot, there's also archery and rifle shooting, tennis, padel tennis and aqua aerobics. There really is something for everyone here and its all well run, well maintained and well organised. ||We will return

Repeat customer who wanted to stay at all locations and have recommended this chain to family and friends but this location has turned us off on booking future locations going forward. Save your money and stay at more reputable resorts. Seems like Barut has changed and is going through difficult times and only caters to the select few.